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Sunday November 05, 2017

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Catherine Merridale detail the events that led up to the dramatic overthrow of the last Romanov Czar, the rise of the revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov — better known as Lenin — and the creation of the Soviet Union.

Sunday November 12, 2017

Michael Enright talks to Masha Gessen about what the centenary of the Russian Revolution means in the Russia of Vladimir Putin, and we examine how the legacy of the revolution influences debates about socialism and communism today.

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